<p>I know this may seem counter-intuitive, but can people stop posting in this thread?</p>
<p>Freshman:
3 Honors classes
1st Semester - 4.43
2nd Semester - 4.66</p>
<p>Sophomore:
3 Honors classes
1st Semester - 4.43
2nd Semester - 4.38</p>
<p>Junior:
1 Honors class
1st Quarter: 4.28</p>
<p>Asian, from U.S. Territory (not from U.S. mainland). No sports, but ranked 6 out of 95 Freshman year and 5 out of 94 Sophomore year. About 80 hours of community service done so far, currently in Junior Achievement as Vice President of Finance, not from the United States mainland (from U.S. territory), wanting to major in Business/Economics/Entrepreneurship, currently Secretary of a club concerning Breast Cancer and in four other clubs, planning to run for President of the Breast Cancer club for Senior year. I sell Pink Lemonade everyday during break to students to raise awareness for Breast Cancer as well. A lot of coastal cleanups (beach cleanups), tree planting, and animal volunteer services done as well…</p>
<p>I will be taking my SATs this January for the first time, so no score yet, but I took my PSATs, and I got an estimated SAT score (based on the PSATs of Sophomore year, I’m not sure about Junior year yet as I’ve just taken my PSATs yesterday) of 1950.</p>
<p>@david: I’m not familiar with international admissions at a school like Dartmouth, I know that it’s incredibly competitive here. You’re a very solid applicant for Dartmouth, but I’m not sure how they treat internationals. Good luck!</p>
<p>@tyrtle: Sorry, neither of us knows anyone in the med school right now. Good luck at Emory!</p>
<p>@hicristen: too early to tell, just keep doing what you love!</p>
<p>@gnaz: you’re a solid applicant for the international field, but it’s still very unpredictable when it comes to international admissions.</p>
<p>Desired Major-Mechanical Engineering</p>
<p>Ethnicity/Religious Affiliation:
Asian(Korean), Catholic,
^Not an international student.</p>
<p>Solid recommendation letters.</p>
<p>Academics:
SAT-1800(1st SAT) [510/680/610][8]
SAT-1810(2nd SAT) [570/680/560][8]
Super scored SAT-1860[570/680/610][8]
ACT-27 [27/26/26/27][8]
ACT-28 [28/29/26/27][8]
ACT-30 [28/33/29/31][None]
Super scored ACT-30[28/33/29/31][8]</p>
<p>SAT II-
USH-680
PHYSICS-670
Math I-???</p>
<p>GPA-95/100</p>
<p>Engineering Courses(Considered as college level courses)
PLTW Principles of Engineering
PLTW Digital Electronics
PLTW Civil Engineering
PLTW DDP
PLTW Robotics</p>
<p>AP Courses/Exams:
AP Euro-4
AP American History-4
AP English-3(Not submitting)
AP Stat-Currently Enrolled
AP Physics-Currently Enrolled
AP Calc-(Even though I am not rolled in AP Calc, I will take the AP Calc exam.)</p>
<p>Current classes-Senior Year</p>
<p>AP Physics
College Write/Lit Traditions 12th Grade<-Could not take AP English this year due to inflexibility of my other classes.
Drawing & Painting
Animation I
IB Economics
College Calc
AP Statistics
Sequential Art I</p>
<p>Activities:
School Orchestra-(6th-9th)[Stopped orchestra after 9th grade and took all the PLTW(Engineering classes) courses that were available in my high school.]
Computer Club(Starting from 9th)
Alter Service(Since middle school)
President’s Volunteer Service Award (Silver, 9th grade) from KAYO (Korean American Youth Orchestra)
Volunteer Service at local Nursing Home(2 years)
Local Youth Center Basketball-(7/8th-10th)
Grand Friends Club
Technology Honor Society
Habitat for Humanity
-Built a garden for low income families and renovated houses.</p>
<p>Schools</p>
<p>Cooper Union(ED)
SUNY Buffalo At
SUNY Binghamton
Lafayette University
Villanova University
Case Western University
NYU-Poly
Purdue University
Northeastern University
Rochester Institute of Technology
George Washington University</p>
<p>I’m applying REA to Stanford.</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.95
SAT I: 2290 (single-sitting)
SAT II: 800 Bio M, 770 USH, 740 Chem
AP Scores: Bio 5, Chem 4, USH 5, AP English 5
Ranking: Top 15 (out of 932 graduating students)</p>
<p>Current courses:
AP Literature
AP Physics C
AP Calculus A/B
AP Comparative Government
Chinese 3
Journalism Class (school newspaper)</p>
<p>Awards:
Many 1st and 2nd place trophies from Speech and Debate competitions and Model United Nations conferences. Also a good amount of finalist/semifinalist awards. Some relatively insignificant stuff like CSF Gold Sealbearer and AP Scholar w/ Honor.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
President of Philosophy Club
President and Co-Founder of Model United Nations Team
Vice President of LEO Club (volunteer organization)
General Officer and Event Captain of Speech and Debate Team
Writer for the Newspaper
Formal classical guitar training for six years and running
Orchestra guitarist for four years and running</p>
<p>Job/Working Experience:
I had an intensive 5 week internship at a Biomedical Engineering Lab in UC Davis where I worked on a project with Giant Unilamellar Vesicles. The professor I worked under and I are looking to publish a paper involving my findings.
I also tutor a Junior in AP English.</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian/Serbian (half and half)</p>
<p>I generally like my essays, but I still have a good amount of polishing to do in the next two weeks. I have phenomenal teacher and counselor recs from what I heard.</p>
<p>My dad is also a faculty member at Stanford, which I’ve heard is a hook of varying strength, any insight on that?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot! I really appreciate what you guys are doing here :)</p>
<p>This is awesome! Thanks!
I’m currently a junior in high school doing the IB diploma program.
My subject are:
Biology HL
Physics HL
Maths HL
ITGS HL
English A lang&lit SL
Spanish Ab Initio SL</p>
<p>STATS:
SAT I: I plan on taking the ACT
SAT II: Not taken yet, but I will probably take Biology M, Physics and French or Spanish
ACT: I didn’t take it yet but it will probably be a ~33-34
Freshman GPA: 5.55/7 (Where 7 is an A+ and 6 an A)
Sophomore GPA: ~5.8/7
Cambridge IGCSE exam:
Biology A (Almost an A* :@)
Physics: A*
ICT: A*
French: A*
Geography: A
Global perspectives: A
Maths: A
English first language: B
English literature: B
+
Fluent in Italian and English
Conversational in French
Basic German (I will probably continue with this later in the year)
I’m learning Russian on my own and spanish in school. Maybe I will do some Korean.
+
Citizenship: Italian
Ethnicity: Mixed, African-caucasian
I will require financial aid</p>
<p>BACKGROUND:
My freshman/sophomore GPA are kind of low because throughout my education i have been taught in Italian, and at the beginning of my freshman year I had a very very basic knowledge of english. This has obviously had a big impact on my grades. This also meant that i had less time to get involved in extracurriculars. I also live in a country that does not have any STEM extracurriculars available. </p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULARS:
-Volunteering:
-~20h volunteering at a church teaching maths to street children (not even sure it is worth mentioning (Freshman&Sophomore years)
- I’m organizing a trip to build a hospital in Ethiopia together with an NGO (Junior)
- I will probably volunteer at a somali school
-Sports - Volleyball (Junior)
-Leadership
-MUN (Sophomore&Junior, right now I’m holding a leadership position and I’m one of the most active members, hoping to be secretary general next year. And my school has the second strongest MUN club in the country)
-Creativity
-Journalism club
-Yearbook club
-Photography club
-Others
-I’m responsible for lots of school events (UN day, Peace day, etc…)
-I’m organizing my own events, like a school-wide competition with the objective of making students create artworks through recycling
-I’m organizing the first MUN conference to be hosted inside my school
-I MIGHT get an internship at the UNESCO
-I’m trying to learn how to program in Python
-I will take part in the Duke of Edinburgh award competition
-I’m on the verge of starting a Fairtrade business between Italy and Ethiopia.</p>
<p>Prospective Majors: Either Molecular Bio/Biotechnology/Biomedical engineering, Materials science, Computer Science or International relations</p>
<p>I will probably apply to:
-MIT (By far my top choice, but does not offer EA to international students 
)
-Stanford (SCEA maybe?)
-Princeton
-Cornell (I’m really considering ED for this one)
-JHU
-UPenn
-Columbia
-Harvard
-Yale (only for international relations)
-G’Town (only for international relations)
-CMU (even if I get in there is NO WAY I can afford the tuition, and they do not give financial aid)
-Duke</p>
<p>I’m an international applicant(from Nepal) and I’ve completed my high school.Here are some of my informations:
GPA of 3.90
SAT1=2010
SAT 2=not taken yet
IELTS=7.5/9
Futhermore i’m a singer and i’ve recorded songs in many languages.Similarly i’ve got many certificates from NASA for participating in their annual programmes.Likewise i’ve done many social works too.and i was one of the best student in ECA,Furthermore according to my GC,my application essays are strong too…
I am applying at Stanford for the coming fall,so What are my chances for Stanford university??</p>
<p>SAT: 2230 (680 CR, 800 M, 750 W)</p>
<p>SAT II:
Math 2: 800
Chem: 800</p>
<p>GPA: UW: 3.95</p>
<p>APs:
•US History: 5
•Calc BC: 5
•Physics C Mechanics: 5
•Physics C E&M: 5
•Micro: 5
•Macro: 5
•Chemistry: senior year</p>
<p>Difficulty: Most difficult</p>
<p>ECs:
•Theater Tech Crew (Leadership and paid work experience)
•Lacrosse
•Science Olympiad
•Student Tech Team (Help peers with tech issues, help with school’s email system)
•Entrepeneurs club founding member
•100 hours of community service (Math tutoring, tech support)</p>
<p>Planning on MechE.
Also, legacy: mom undergrad, dad grad (3 masters)</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian (Japanese)</p>
<p>Gender: Male</p>
<p>Income: about $70,000</p>
<p>School Type: Public</p>
<p>Location: California, US-Citizen</p>
<p>Legacy: None</p>
<p>Courses</p>
<p>(Course Name: Grade)
Freshman year:
@High School
Bio: A/A
Precalculus A/A
Chinese 1/2: A/A
English: A/A
PE: A/A
Spanish 3/4: A/A
Wrd History: A/A</p>
<p>Sophomore year:
@High School
AP Calc BC: A/A
Chinese 3/4: A/A
English: A/A
ModWrld History: A/A
PE: A/A
AP Physics B: A/A
Spanish 5/6: A/A
@Community College
(Spring)Physics With Calculus I: A
(Summer)Physics With Calculus II: A
(Summer)Intro to Object Oriented Programming: A</p>
<p>Junior Year:
@High School
Chinese 5/6: A/A
AP Chemistry: A/A
Honors English: B/A
AP Env Science: A/A
US History: A/A
@Community College
(Fall)Multi-Variable Calculus: A
(Fall)Engineering Statics: A
(Spring)Linear Algebra: A
(Spring)Differential Equations: A
(Spring)Physics with Calculus III: B</p>
<p>Senior Year:
@High School
AP Gov
AP Eng
AP Bio
Honors Chinese
@Community College
(Fall)Discrete Mathematics
(Fall)Java Programming: Data Structures
(Fall)C++ Programming: Programming Methods
(Fall)Art History
(Fall)Java Programming: Programming Methods</p>
<p>Overall GPA (CC courses not included)
W: 4.22
NW. 3.98</p>
<p>Test Scores:
SATI: 2020 (CR 610, M800, W 610)
SATII: MathII 800, Physics 800, Chem 760, Japanese 800
ACT: Composite 32(E30, M36, S34, R27) Writing:28(Essay 8)
AP:
5’s: Calc BC, Physics B, Japanese, Physics C:Mechanics, Physics C: E&M, Chemistry,
4’s: Env Sci, Comp Sci
3’s: Statistics</p>
<p>Volunteer:
Rebuilding Together (Helps remodel low-income family’s homes): 150 hours
Vo-Cal (Trail Blazing): 50 hours
(Random Small ones) about 50 hours</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars
Water Polo: 4 years, Captain, Best Defense Award
Tennis: 4 years, Captain
HHS GO: 1 year, Founder (Program I found to help students with Math&Science, offers free on campus tutoring, and other resources on website I coded using HTML & JavaScript Home)
Science Bowl: 2 years, President & Captain
Asian Club: 4 years, President
Small Research at Boston University</p>
<p>Random Awards:
AP National Scholar
Annual S.F. Japanese Speech Contest 1st Place
AMC 12 1st in School
F=MA 1st in School
JLPT N1
Math League (CC version of AMC) 3rd on campus</p>
<p>Personal Thoughts:
Strengths: Course Load/Level, SATIIs, solid concentrated EC’s
Weaknesses: SATI/ACT, Major Awards, Ethnicity, W GPA</p>
<p>Also for schools that take Ethnicity into account, does being Japanese have a slight advantage than being the main stream Chinese/Indian?</p>
<p>@spirral: You’re a solid applicant at all of those schools except Cooper. I’m not sure what ED will do for your chances or how applications will be effected due to the recent tuition changes, however your scores aren’t really up to par with Cooper Engineering standards. </p>
<p>@caitiann: It sounds like you know it too, but you’re a very common Stanford applicant. It’ll come down to how the admissions committee feels you can contribute to the class based on the story you tell through your essays. Good luck</p>
<p>@TheMan we prefer to chance for Stanford I’m unfamiliar with that business school, sorry</p>
<p>@Amara: Age doesn’t effect your app as far as I know, I applied at 16 too. You’re an asian from california interested in Mechanical engineering, so it’ll be tough but you sound like a strong applicant anyways and you have a unique experience so I would push your diversity of interests. Good luck! 15%</p>
<p>@gnaz: not a lot of info, however you events sounds really cool! You’re still international though so it’s a crap shoot. Good luck!</p>
<p>@hichris: can’t give an accurate chance when you’re only a junior, you need to develop more and who knows what applying will be like next year or how many people there will be. Good lukc and have fun in high school!</p>
<p>Hi! I’m applying to Yale SCEA but I am probably going to apply to stanford RD and this looks like an interesting thread. You can look at my resume and stuff here <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1555379-chance-me-yale-scea.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1555379-chance-me-yale-scea.html</a></p>
<p>Would you mind checking out this thread? Thanks guys!!!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1564865-chance-me-will-chance-back-emory-ed.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1564865-chance-me-will-chance-back-emory-ed.html</a></p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2240–760V, 780M, 700W
SAT II: 800 Math II, 750 Chemistry
GPA: 4.2
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC (5), Lang & Comp (5), USH (4), Chem (4), Human Geography (4, self studied)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Econ, AP Physics, AP Lit, AP Stat, AP Gov’t, AP French
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AMC 12 Winner/AIME Qualifier, AP Scholar with Distinction, World Series of Innovation Finalist (product design/development), Girl Scout Gold Award</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
- Varsity Tennis (9-12) - 4 year conference champions, Captain (11,12), MIP (11), All-State Team (9-12), USTA ranked player (9-12)
- Jazz Orchestra (9-12) - Traveling jazz orchestra group that performs all over my community
- Girl Scouts (9-12) - Ambassador, Earned my Gold Award this past summer for creating an instrument library at my school, so that kids who can’t normally afford instruments, have access to them
- Youth and Government (9-12) - Youth Secretariat, Senator, Passed 2 bills into law at conference
- Future Civic Leaders (9-12) - Club Manager, Founding Member, Developed/Created a weekly news bulletin at school that updates students with current events
- Math Club (10-12) - VP</p>
<p>Job/Work Experience:
- Tennis Instructor (10-12) - Taught privately and at tennis schools in my town
- Journalist (9-12) - Sports columnist for a newspaper in my state, Interned as a field journalist for them this past summer
- Radio DJ/Host (12) - So basically my boss from the paper offered me an interview to host a radio/news show in the area. I interviewed, got picked, and had a summer show. </p>
<p>Volunteer/Community Service: Umm…I guess Girl Scout stuff falls into this category too</p>
<p>Essays: I can’t exactly assess the quality of my own essays, but I will say that I’m in love with every single one of them. I feel like I vomited me all over the page (as weird as that sounds…)
Teacher Recommendation: Got one from my APUSH teacher and my AP Lang teacher, I think they turned out ok, I really loved them both as teachers
Counselor Rec: No idea what he wrote, but we had a great relationship, so I think it turned out ok
Additional Rec: N/A</p>
<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
State (if domestic applicant): NJ
School Type: Small public school
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Thanks for chancing! I really appreciate it!</p>
<p>Here’s a thought: Why don’t you all also post YOUR stats from high school? That would help give everyone a solid foundation on what it takes. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1565722-usd-chances.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1565722-usd-chances.html</a></p>
<p>I’d really appreciate it if you can chance me:)
I’m a international student (Asian), applying to Stanford RD (even I know it’s a high reach for me but my sister went there for undergrad and is now a phd student there, does that help?), most of the UCs, and Cornell, BC, Tufts, Pomona, CMC.</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT: CR=600 M=770 W=650 Total 2020
Suject Tests: took Biology M and Math level 2, scores come out in 3 days
TOEFL: 105
GPA: 3.93 (estimated)
AP/Honors: school does not offer AP courses but I am in the advanced class and take the most accelerated science curriculums as possible.</p>
<p>Subjective: (Most of my ECs are probably unheard of but here goes)
School Yearly Journal chief editor (2 years).
Went on a cultural exchange program to the UK.
Competed in several English compostition and speech contests.
Volunteer translator for Khan Academy, TED, and Amnesity International.</p>
<p>Work:
Translator and editor.</p>
<p>Awards:
The Harvard Book Prize.
National English Speach Competition.
School Merit Scholarships. </p>
<p>Others:
Applying to financial aids.
International student but is an US citizen.</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p>
<p>Hey,chance me as well!!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1566361-urgent-help-me-calm-my-tiger-parents-ancient-8-stanford-u-c-ucs.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1566361-urgent-help-me-calm-my-tiger-parents-ancient-8-stanford-u-c-ucs.html</a></p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I am a senior in New Jersey and I am looking at ole miss.
Freshman/sophomore year:3.5 weighted
Junior year:3.0 unweighted
Sat: 500 on both math and critical reading
520 on writing
6 extra curricular activities
2 church service trips </p>
<p>What are my chances</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I’m not applying to Stanford because practically no one in my school gets in, but I would really appreciate it if you could ‘chance me’ for the following schools 
(applying for mechanical/aerospace engineering). Thank youuu <3 </p>
<p>Yale (REA), UMichigan (EA), UIUC (EA)
RD: Brown, Princeton, Cornell, CMU, Rice [and if you have time, GeorgiaTech, UC Berkely, UCLA, UCSD]
And if you only have time for one- Yale please (that’s my dream school !)</p>
<p>I’m Asian (Indian) & female, studying at a pretty prestigious international school. We do the IGCSE program in grades 9 and 10, and the IB diploma program in grades 11 and 12. So no rankings, no GPA. I realize that the ECAs I’m listing don’t seem like a lot (at least compared to some that I’ve seen on the threads here) but they’re really the maximum that most people in my grade are able to handle (because of the rigor of the IBDP).</p>
<p>Academics-
- IGCSEs - All A<em>s (assessments in grades 9 and 10- either all A</em>s or mostly A*s and a few As)
- IB - predicted 45, assessment grades - 40/42, 41/42 and most recently 42/42
- SAT 1 - 2150 (all sections above 700) - I don’t have time to retake this before the application deadline.
- SAT 2 Math - 800
- SAT 2 Physics - score not released yet, but I’ve been getting 780-800 on diagnostic tests. will probably retake if below 770, but that score will not be sent to Yale as it will be past the EA deadline.
-I have academic awards in English, French, Econ, and “overall” (awarded to the top 4 out of 330 students)</p>
<p>School statistics- Yale 2160 and 44 (average), Princeton 2200 and 43, Brown 2100 and 41, Cornell 2130 and 41. </p>
<p>ECAs-
-Piano: passed Grade 7 exam with merit
-Drums: passed Grade 5 exam
-Percussion: Play for school’s band, orchestra and percussion group - won an award in school. Time commitment of 4 hrs/week (mentioned in common app). Grades 9-12
-Chairperson of a student initiative that raises funds for an NGO in my home country. Also volunteered at this NGO over the summer. Won an award in school for this. Grades 10-12
-Local service at a home for the disabled; won an award in school for this. Grade 11</p>
<p>Essays - About music & community service. Engineering supplement- mentioned all my experiences in the field of engineering. Counsellor & teachers happy with my essays, so I think they’re acceptable (but nothing spectacular).</p>
<p>Thanks !</p>